Ventriculo-peritoneal shunt infection by mycobacterium fortuitum in an adult [4]

Neurology India

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 393-394

  Viswanathan, Roopa ^a   Bhagwati, S N ^a   Iyer, Viswanathan ^a   Newalkar, Prashant ^a  

^a BOMBAY HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CIPROFLOXACIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; KANAMYCIN; OFLOXACIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; SPARFLOXACIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ABSCESS; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ASSAULT; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CULTURE MEDIUM; DEBRIDEMENT; DEVICE REMOVAL; DISEASE COURSE; FRACTURE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PNEUMONIA; PUS; RHINORRHEA; SHUNT INFECTION; SURGICAL WOUND; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKULL FRACTURES; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 7244250099     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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